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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Consonant
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
2. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
ADHD
Whole Language
Phonological Awareness
3. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Letter naming Chart
Towre
The Norman Conquest
Academic Achievement Tests
4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Syntax
Three Layers of Language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Quadrigraph
5. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chall's Stage 2
ADHD
Great Vowel Shift
Chall's Stage 4
6. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Open Syllable
Accuracy
Percentile/ percentile rank
7. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
NICHD
Achievement test
Auditory Learners
Age equivalent
8. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Impulsivity
Visual Learners
Norm-Referenced Test
9. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Synthetic Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
Keith Stanovich
Phonemic/ decodable words
10. Open syllable
Accent
V >
Phonics
Modern English
11. Whole body learning
VC
Accent
Rate
Kinesthetic
12. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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13. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Adolf Kusmaul
Universal Screening
Phonology
14. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Age equivalent
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
GORT
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
15. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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16. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Impulsivity
Macron
Consonant
Modern English
17. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
V-e
Closed Syllable
Auditory Processing
18. Closed syllable
Syllable
Chall's Stage 2
Phonics approach
VC
19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Quadrigraph
Phonological Awareness
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Reading Comprehension Support
20. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Frank Smith
Chall's Stage 4
Vowel
Middle English
21. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Standard deviation
Chall's Stage 3
Keith Stanovich
Percentile
22. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Accuracy
ADHD
Mastery level
23. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Standard Scores
Six basic types of syllables
Simultaneous teaching
Texas Education Code 28.06
24. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Vr
Dyslexia
Simultaneous teaching
Criterion referenced tests
25. Final stable syllable
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26. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Sight Words
Grapheme
Cognitive Assessment
Standardized test
27. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Standard Scores
Reading Comprehension Support
ADHD
Criterion referenced tests
28. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Suffix
Tilde
Vowel Digraph
NICHD
29. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Diagnostic Teaching
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Frank Smith
Mastery level
30. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Anglo Saxon
Visual Learners
Sound Symbol Association
31. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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32. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Phonemic/ decodable words
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Digraph
Latin layer of language
33. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Phonics approach
Three Layers of Language
Joe Torgesen
IDEA
34. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Morpheme
Direct Instruction
Standardized test
Diagnostic tests
35. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
WRAT
Raw score
James Hinshelwood
Vowel
36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Norm-referenced tests
Mathew Effect
Social language
37. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Frank Smith
IEP
Syllable Instruction
Criterion referenced tests
38. English as a second language
Auditory Processing
ESL
Texas Education Code 38.003
Reading Comprehension Support
39. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Reliability
Syllable Instruction
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Cedilla
40. State Board of Eduation
Curriculum referenced tests
SBOE
Multisensory
Whole Language
41. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Chall's Stage 1
Trigraph
Vowel
Vr
42. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Modern English
Morphology
Tilde
Vowel
43. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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44. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Oral Language
Criterion referenced tests
Visual Processing
45. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
WIATII
V-e
Old English
46. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Visual Processing
Syllable
RTI
Semantics
47. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Social language
Keith Stanovich
Open Syllable
Phonological Awareness
48. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Quadrigraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Phonology
Battery
49. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Cognitive Assessment
Curriculum referenced tests
Joe Torgesen
Semantics
50. Individual Educational Plan
V >
Phonemic/ decodable words
Progress Monitoring
IEP